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Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?



On 25/06/19 3:38 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On 24/06/19 06.27, Aidan Gauland wrote:
>
>> I can't really offer an opinion on whether it is dangerous without a
>> more detailed hypothetical scenario, but I would say that is
>> overbroad, and this rule should be narrowed down to only allow
>> running certain commands via sudo as required for this group to
>> perform their work.
>
> In this hypothetical scenario, the sudoers rule is applied to ALL
> systems, including production ones, and sysadmins doesn't have proper
> backups.
OK, not having a (good) backup system is definitely bad.  You should
always have that even if your security is very tight, in case something
slips through, or an admin makes a mistake.


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